Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
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by Jill W. Harris Death has been commemorated in every culture since the beginning of civilization. The diversity of memorial rites is indeed a measure of the universal import of both the meaning of death and the significance of loss. But whether the practices are based on cultural, religious, ethnic or completely individual beliefs, there is a common chord, and that is the powerful, primitive need to honor those who have died. In “Remembrances and Celebrations,” Jill Harris explores the art of paying tribute. Through a close look at the ways in which we have historically honored those we have lost — eulogies, letters relating to death, poetry (more traditionally called elegies) and epitaphs — Harris gives us an appreciation of the beauty and solace offered by the words of loss. The eulogies collected here range from poignant to funny, but all are impassioned articulations, moving and often intimate portraits of family and friends. In the second section, Harris gives us the powerful, emotional letters written to give comfort to mourners. The elegies and epitaphs complete this comforting and affecting anthology of the literature of mourning. Features: Each of the eulogies and letters is introduced with background information providing insight to the entry. Serves as a valuable tool for anyone seeking guidance in celebrating the uniqueness of each person upon their death. Provides a rich appreciation of the beauty and solace offered by heartfelt words of loss. About the Author: Long interested in the concept of honoring the dead, “Remembrances and Celebrations” is Jill Werman Harris’ first book. Prior to writing this anthology, Ms. Harris researched and edited various books on medicine and health for consumers. She has written numerous educational pamphlets for pharmaceutical companies and articles for magazines. Ms.Harris is a graduate of New York University and lives in New York City. Specifications: Binding: Hardbound Size: 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" Pages: 308 Illustrations: No Comments: “Jill Werman Harris had done her readers and posterity a great service. This beautiful book speaks of loss and love and honor, and of the tributes born in the crucible of deep sorrow. A collection of sublime thought for the ages, it raises the form of personal elegy to the highest literary art. It will be read and re-read and quoted endlessly.” — Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, author of “How We Die” and “How We Live” “Immortelles for mortals such as we — this assemblage of Godspeeds, good-byes, and riddances. Ms. Harris supplies a timely and well-tempered reference for end times. Speech raised in response to the Unspeakable Mystery: it is a comfort to know that, whilst we are all struck down, we are not all struck dumb.” — Thomas Lynch, author of “The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade” “So often it takes a person’s death to understand the totality of the life that preceded it. ‘Remembrances And Celebrations,’ a collection of elegies and eulogies of the famous by the famous, is fascinating reading and a learning experience.” — Dominick Dunne “This eclectic sourcebook offers inspiration for anyone seeking to memorialize a loved one. Since the mourners… are well-known writers and public figures, the collection is a bonanza for the morbidly minded browser as well. All of the tributes are characterized by genuine feelings of loss.” — Publishers Weekly Table of Contents: Introduction Section I: Eulogies T.S. Eliot by Sir Rupert Hart-Davis W.H. Auden by Stephen Spender Hilda Stegner by Wallace Stegner E.B. White by Peter De Vries Dashiell Hammett by Lillian Hellman Joseph Brodsky by Andrei Bitov Agatha Christie by William Collins Mammy Caroline Barr by William Faulkner Anais Nin by Henry Miller Rupert Brooke by Winston Churchill Randall Jarrell by Robert Lowell Andrew Goodman by Ralph Engleman Ogden Nash by S.J. Perelman Katherine Anne Porter by Robert Penn Warren Duke Ellington by Stanley Dance Paul Robeson by Paul Robeson, Jr. James Michener by William Livingston Malcolm X by Ossie Davis Yitzhak Rabin by King Hussein Yitzhak Rabin by Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof A. Bartlett Giamatti by Marcus Giamatti Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by David Dinkins Daniel Webster by Amasa McCoy Raphael Soyer by Chaim Gross Robert Kennedy by Edward Kennedy Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Maurice Tempelsman Clara M. Hale by Reverend James A. Forbes, Jr. Terence MacSwiney by Eamon De Valera George Burns by Irving Fein Laurence Olivier by Bernard Levin Thomas Jefferson and John Adams by Edward Everett Robert Gwathmey by Charles Gwathmey Stephen Bantu Biko by Archbishop Desmond Tutu Six Murdered Children by Archbishop Desmond Tutu Mark Schorer by Alfred Kazin Medgar Evers by Roy Wilkins Karl Marx by Friedrich Engels Lillian Hellman by William Styron Lillian Hellman by Jack Koontz Jerry Garcia by Robert Hunter Jackie Robinson by Reverend Jesse Jackson Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi by Jawaharlal Nehru Benjamin Franklin by Mark Twain Leonard Bernstein by Ned Rorem George Balanchine by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale Diana, Pricess of Wales, by Earl Spencer William Edgett Smith by Calvin Trillin Jim Henson by Frank Oz Section II: Letters Major Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Hubbard Horace Greeley to Margaret Fuller Marsilio Ficino to Bernardo Bembo Julius Rosenberg to Manny Bloch Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to Their Children George Bernard Shaw to Stella Campbell Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough Abraham Lincoln to Lydia Bixby John Donne to His Mother Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Her Daughter Samuel Johnson to James Elphinston James Michener to His Friends William Cowper to John Newton Servius Sulpicius Rufus to Marcus Tullius Cicero Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey (Another) Sir William Osler to His Wife George Gordon, Lord Byron, to John Cam Hobhouse Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to His Grandmother Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Charles Lamb Ralph Waldo Emerson to Mary Moody Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Mary Appleton Mackintosh Robert Falcon Scott to James Matthew Barrie Herman Hesse to Thomas Mann Herman Hesse to Thomas Mann (Another) C.S. Lewis to Owen Barfield Charles Dickens to John Forster Charles Dickens to His Wife Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson to John Adams Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf Margaret Fuller Ossoli to an Unknown Person Margaret Fuller Ossoli to Her Mother Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Robert Monteith William Wordsworth to Robert Southey Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Abbe' Bullinger Alphonse de Lamartine to Count Raigecourt RAF Pilot to His Mother Catherine of Aragon to King Henry VIII Sir Walter Ralegh to Elizabeth Ralegh Section III: Elegies Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Something to Remember Me By by Inge Auerbacher In Loving Memory: E.M. Butler by Cecil Day-Lewis On a Dying Boy by William Bell The Bitter River by Langston Hughes Deceased by Langston Hughes Surprised By Joy by Willaim Wordsworth Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay Blues (for Hedli Anderson) by W.H. Auden I Shall Not Cry Return by Ellen M.H. Gates Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead by William Shakespeare Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte When I Am Dead, My Dearest by Christina Rossetti Remember by Christina Rossetti On My First Son by Ben Jonson Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen They Are All Gone Into the World of Light by Henry Vaughan Heraclitus by William Johnson Cory L'Envoi by James Michener The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb Presence of Mind by Harry Graham The Going by Thomas Hardy One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Say Not, They Die, Those Splendid Souls by Anonymous A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth The Twenty-Third Psalm Les Jardins by Jacques Delille Monody on the Death of Francis Johnson by R. Douglass, Jr. Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep by Anonymous To My Friend on the Death of His Sister by John Greenleaf Whittier What of the Darkness? To the Happy Dead People by Richard Le Gallienne Early Death by Hartley Coleridge If I Should Go Before the Rest of You by Joyce Grenfell To Mary by Charles Wolfe And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep by Anonymous I'm Here for a Short Visit Only by Noel Coward Do Not Laugh When the Hearse Goes By by Anonymous Spirits of the Dead by Edgar Allan Poe For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe Grief by Norah Leney Bereft by Thomas Hardy Along the Road by Robert Browning Hamilton There Is No Death by Anonymous My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close by Emily Dickinson Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Section IV: Epitaphs Acknowledgements Permissions